Humanities Projects 2015-2016
Resonance of Remembrance
Grandpaś Watch
One time, when I was seven years old, I was sitting with my brother at my grandma and grandpa’s house. The walls were dark tan. My great grandma Fay’s piano was against the wall, and my grandma had this really uncomfortable sofa near the kitchen. I’m serious. I’ve tried to fall asleep on it, but rocks are more We were running up the stairs and then sliding down on our bums when I saw my grandpa at the kitchen island. I wondered, “What is he holding?” So, I went over to my grandpa.¨What’s that? I asked. He was holding a shiny, brass pocket watch and showed it to me. It was really cool because on the watch, it showed what date it was and he could change it. I can’t remember what he told me, but he let me have it. It was important to me because he gave it to me, and it made me smile. When I was in third or fourth grade, I remember one morning, before school, I saw that my dad’s eyes were red and glazed. Mr. Mom wasn’t home, so we went on with our day. We went to the school library area after school and were doing stuff, when my brother got a phone call from my dad. “What? Why do we need us to go home? my brother said. “What’s wrong? It sounds like someone died.” I thought in my head, he’s just being overdramatic. When we got home, my mom was laying on the sofa, sad. my mom said that he died my grand pah I didn’t know how to react to it. I felt this weird feeling. I can’t really explain. For the entire month or so, I didn’t cry. I wasn’t sad. I just felt like I wasn’t there. It felt like an empty thing in a bubble. We lived in my grandma’s house for a week or so. Then we went back to our regular lives. We moved to a new house in fifth grade. I went to look for my watch, but I couldn’t find it. I looked in the toy box that’s in the closet that my brother and I share. I looked in my drawers. I looked under my bed. I even looked behind the dresser, but sadly I lost it. “Ohh no,” I thought, “where could it be!!!” When I find my grandfather’s brass watch again, I will take care of it so much, and I will put it in a safe place so I won't lose it again.
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what did you learn about writing a memoir?
One strategy that helped me when I wrote my memoir was getting it critique a lot. Tim O’Brien used this strategy in the book, The Things They Carried. In addition to incorporating O’Brien’s writing strategies, the sounds that we included in our memoirs greatly enhanced the stories we told. By listening to others’ memoirs and writing my own, I realized that _this project matter because we were able to share a happy or sad moment with other people. People should care about others peoples real-life stories because you can get to know someone better and if not well you learned something new about someone that you don’t know. My best writing strategy was going to tutoring and getting help because without the help it would not of been as boss as it was _______________________________________ ______ ___ _